THE AUSTRALIAN Research Council has awarded funding to researchers from the University of Technology, Sydney to develop bridge condition assessment robots.
The funding is part of the Linkage Projects scheme, which consists of 218 projects.
The project by Associate Professor Dikai Liu, Professor Kenneth J Waldron and Professor Gamini Dissanayake will receive $72,500 in 2010, $142,500 in 2011, $137,500 in 2012, and $67,500 in 2013.
The researchers will partner with the Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales to develop a biologically inspired robotic system for steel bridge condition assessment.
The robotic inspection system will be able to crawl over steel bridge structures to insepct all areas. The acquired information will be presented to a human operator for effective condition assessment.
If successful, the robots are expected to increase worker safety and efficiency and reduce the costs of the inspection process.
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